Get ahead! The Prescribing Safety Assessment is an invaluable practice aid for students preparing for final exams. Written by an experienced team of authors under the guidance of series editor Saran Shantikumar, it covers two examinations’ worth of questions matching the exact format of the Prescribing Safety Assessment (PSA). Candidates can work through the practice papers systematically or dip in and out of the book using the index as a guide to questions on a specific topic.

Making a Medic is a comprehensive guide to everything you need to know in order to succeed at medical school, including: how to study effectively (and still have time for fun!) the latest books, websites and apps to use how to get the most out of clinical placements how to master OSCEs and written exams how to ace the Situational Judgement Test and Prescribing Safety Assessment and much, much more! Making a Medic is laid out intuitively year by year, so that readers can easily find the information most relevant to their current stage of study. Packed full of cartoons, anecdotes and practical tips, the content is easy to read and simple to put into action. Whether you're in first year or final year, this book will help you manage your workload, revise effectively for exams and secure the scores you need for the Foundation Programme jobs you want.

Medical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, now in its fifth edition, offers medical students all they need to know to become safe and effective prescribers. It forms a complete, integrated resource for basic pharmaceutical science, pathophysiology, clinical pharmacology, and therapeutics. The fifth edition has been extensively revised and updated throughout. Key features include: - Clear, disease-based approach. - Presentation of how drugs are used in clinical practice. - Succinct explanations of the major pathogenic mechanisms of each disease and consequent clinical signs and symptoms. - Comprehensive reviews of major drug classes relevant to each disease. - Structured approach to the principles of disease management – outlining core principles of drug choice and planning a therapeutic regimen for common diseases. - Quick-reference drug compendia illustrating key similarities and differences among all BNF-listed drugs in each class. - Comes with free e-book on StudentConsult. - New sections on key and evolving topics, including prescribing safety and pharmacovigilance. - Updated figures to further clarify complex areas. - Over 800 revised multiple-choice and case-based questions for self-assessment.

Fully updated for its second edition, Pass the PSA is written specifically for the Prescribing Safety Assessment (PSA) exam, with one chapter dedicated to each PSA exam section.This latest edition: - Introduces a simple, memorable and failsafe approach to prescribing (the 'PReSCRIBER' mnemonic) - Specifies the universal basic principles of prescribing for all sections - Examines each section's question structure and how to approach it - questions (structured identically to the exam) that conclude each chapter - Covers all scenarios suggested for questioning in the PSA blueprint - Highlights common traps throughout - Contains two mock exams - Includes finals-level sections on data interpretation and management

Highly Commended, BMA Medical Book Awards 2013Get Ahead! The Situational Judgement Test provides practical and indispensable revision for the SJT with the aim of maximising scores and putting candidates in control of their medical careers. This essential guide offers detailed answer reasoning as well as a dedicated chapter on the prerequisite knowl

Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can arise from the use of opioid medications. Chronic pain and opioid use disorder both represent complex human conditions affecting millions of Americans and causing untold disability and loss of function. In the context of the growing opioid problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an Opioids Action Plan in early 2016. As part of this plan, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education and to identify actions the FDA and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA's development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.

Highly Commended, BMA Medical Book Awards 2013Get Ahead! The Situational Judgement Test provides practical and indispensable revision for the SJT with the aim of maximising scores and putting candidates in control of their medical careers. This essential guide offers detailed answer reasoning as well as a dedicated chapter on the prerequisite knowl

As healthcare technology advances, health professionals who work with prescriptions or medical orders will need to learn about electronic prescribing soon. Electronic Prescribing: A Safety and Implementation Guide explores how e-prescribing works, identifies features that help or hinder safe prescribing, and offers practical advice for implementing e-prescribing. Readers will learn to use electronic prescribing technology safely and effectively in the multi-disciplinary, complex environment of today's healthcare.

In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.

"Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/